Non-Executive Directors – helping to realise your ambition

Date:   Thursday 05 November 2020          

Time:   11:00am – 11.45am

Location: Zoom Webinar

This webinar aims to take the mystery out of the appointment of Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) to your Board; matched appropriately to your business they can add realvalue by creating a strategic partnership, offering investment opportunities and free-thinking.

The panel will start with the basics:

whatis a Non-Executive Director?
how can they add value to your business?
how can a business access the network of NEDs?
what costs are associated with taking on a NED?
How can a NED open up access to alternative financing?
Can you engage a NED on a temporary basis?

We will hear from Paul McElvaney about Learning Pool’s experience of engaging a NED and also from Dr Bryan Keating, who will speak from from his own perspective as that Non-Executive Director: the process and the benefits, also including how by doing so, this helped to realise the company’s ambitions. We will also hear from the experts, Kirsty McManus of Institute of Directors NI and Susan Nightingale from British Business Bank, providing the answers to all your questions.

Panellist bios:

Paul McElvaney

Paul is CEO and founder at Learning Pool. From humble beginnings in Derry in 2006, Paul and his team have grown Learning Pool to be a world leader in workplace learning, providing innovative solutions to some of the world’sbiggest brands and most important government bodies.

Learning Pool nowemploys more than 200 people across the UK and US. Having partnered with an Irish private equity fund in 2016, the business has trebled in size and has ambitions to replicate that in the next 4 years.

Paul was awarded‘Director of the Year’, from the Institute of Directors, and cites the establishment of an independent board of directors as a key ingredientin the company’s success. Learning Pool has just been reaccredited Goldin Investors in People, received an accolade for ‘Outstanding EmployeeEngagement’ from Sunday Times Best Companies and secured Gold in Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies.